Radial special trailer tire has a 14-ply rating and a 4,400-lb max load at 110 psi. Acrylic enamel finish resists damage. Complimentary roadside assistance included. Assembly is match mounted and balanced providing longevity and a smooth ride.
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Platinum Plus Warranty with Roadside Assistance
This tire-and-wheel assembly comes with a Platinum Plus warranty that includes complimentary roadside assistance for 2 years. If your trailer has a flat tire, call the help line and a technician will come change out the flat tire with your existing inflated spare tire. The service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In addition to the roadside assistance, this warranty also includes other benefits and services.
The wheel on this assembly has a durable acrylic enamel finish on the front. The finish is applied after the wheel goes through an environmentally safe zinc phosphate pre-treatment and is coated with an e-coat primer layer. Compared to powder coat finishes, this finish resists getting chipped from flying road debris or scraped from hitting a curb for a longer period of time. These acrylic enamel wheels performed for more than 1,000 hours in salt spray tests.
The stud holes on this steel wheel are beveled to ensure that the wheel stays tight against your trailer hub. This also eliminates the need to constantly retorque the lug nuts.
Unlike standard trailer tire tread, which has solid, continuous ribs, the automotive-grade tread on these Provider radials has ribs with breaks. These breaks allow water to run off to the sides. The Provider tread also has sipes. Siping is a process in which thin grooves (or sipes) are cut into the rubber of the tire. The grooves channel water away from the tread so that the tire makes better contact with the road. Both of these features greatly improve traction during wet, snowy, or icy conditions.
Provider radials are constructed with double polyester cords and double steel belts for increased durability and endurance. A protective layer of nylon is wrapped around the steel belts to help prevent tread separation. Provider radials are bake tested - a process usually reserved for automotive tires - to ensure that the rubber holds up over time.
In an ideal world, tire-and-wheel assemblies would be perfectly round and even throughout. Unfortunately tires and wheels have imperfections that often cause vibrations, resulting in a rough ride and wear and tear on the assemblies, as well as on the rest of your trailer's running gear. Taskmaster helps to solve this problem by match mounting and balancing their assemblies so they're ready to roll when they reach your door.
To do this, Taskmaster uses a laser-guided machine to locate the heavy and light spots of each assembly. They then align the assembly so that lightest part of the tire is near the heaviest part of the wheel. The assembly is then rotated at high speeds to pinpoint the optimal place to apply weights to further balance the tire.
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Radial ply tires are designed for trailers that are towed on the highway. The cords on a radial tire are positioned at a 90-degree angle to the direction of travel so that they lay across the width of the tire from wheel lip to wheel lip. This construction prevents the cords from rubbing against one another when the tire flexes, unlike the cords on a bias ply tire. As a result, radial tires have less rolling resistance and heat buildup, which leads to a longer tread life and improved steering at higher speeds.
Determining the Bolt Pattern
The first number in the bolt pattern is the number of bolt holes. The second number denotes the diameter, in inches, of the circle on which the bolt holes sit.
To determine the bolt-circle diameter on wheels with an odd number of bolt holes, measure from the center of any bolt hole to the point halfway between the two bolt holes directly across from the first. (Example: "5 on 4-1/2" means 5 bolt holes with 4-1/2" measured to a point halfway between the opposite bolt holes.)
On wheels with an even number of bolt holes, measure from the center of one bolt hole to the center of the hole directly across from it. (Example: "8 on 6-1/2" means 8 bolt holes with 6-1/2" from the center of one hole to the center of another on the opposite side.)
Measuring the distance from the center of one bolt hole on the wheel to the center of a bolt hole right next to it can also help to determine the bolt pattern.
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Hello, everybody, this is Jeff at etrailer.com. Today, we're gonna take a look at this Taskmaster Provider ST235/85R16 Radial Trailer Tire in a Load Range G, and it's mounted on this 16 inch Vesper black modular steel trailer wheel with the 8 on 6 1/2 inch bolt pattern. Now, this tire and wheel assembly is ideal for stock trailers, utility trailers, and campers. And what's unique on this assembly is this tire is match-mounted and balanced to the wheel for ride comfort and durability, and match-mounting of tires and wheels is a process in which the tire installation position when it's put on the wheel is specifically selected to minimize final force of the imbalance. The method to match-mounting is to align the tire's lightest spot with the wheel's heaviest spot, and that eliminates most of the radial force that can cause tire and suspension wear, and when then they do the final balancing by applying weights to the specific spots on the front and the back of the wheel, it'll eliminate any chance of uneven wear or vibration. And just to show you what we're talking about, if you look on the front, you can see the weights right here, and if we spin it around to the back, you can see the weight right over here, so that makes this tire and wheel assembly all balanced.
The wheel is a steel wheel, has a modular design. When we say modular design, that's the one that has the round holes all the way around the wheel, it is sturdy and corrosion resistant. Now, this wheel has a nice black acrylic enamel finish on it, helps resist chipping and other damage better than your powder coat finishes. The finish on this is applied after a zinc phosphate pre-treatment, and then it covers an E-coat primer layer. Gives you excellent corrosion resistance with a salt spray rating more than 1,000 hours.
Few specs on the wheel, the diameter on this wheel is 16 inches, the width on just the wheel, six inches wide. Now, this wheel does have an 8 on 6 1/2 inch bolt pattern, and if you wanna measure that bolt pattern on a wheel that's an even number of lugs, in this case, it's eight lugs, it's pretty easy, because the lug holes are directly across from each other. So all you have to do is pick any hole, let's say this one, measure from the center of the hole to the center of the hole right across from it. This one, it'll measure 6 1/2 inches, so it's an 8 on 6 1/2 inch bolt pattern. This will use a wheel lug size of 1/2 inch by 20 or 9/16 by 18.
Weight capacity on just the wheel by itself is 4,460 pounds. If you noticed, this wheel does not include a center cap, we do sell those separately if you do want one. You do wanna make sure to get one that'll have the same pilot hole diameter as this opening right here, which is 4.88 inches. And your center cap, when it's installed, will go right through this hole. The tire on this is a radial tire, which means it is constructed with double steel belts, double polyester cords for a nice long life, it is great for highway use, and they do use a nylon tread firming belt overlay around the tire to help prevent tread separation.
This tire is an ST tire, which stands for special trailer tire, has a sturdy sidewall, so it can handle heavy loads, and it is created specifically for trailers, it's not intended for use on other vehicles. The tire size, which will be stamped on the sidewall, ST for special trailer, 235/85R16, R means it's a radial tire. Section width on the tire, 9.3 inches, overall diameter when it's inflated is 31.7. This tire is a Load Range G, which means it's a 14-ply tire, has a maximum load capacity of 4,400 pounds at 110 psi. And this tire does come with a speed rating, and the speed rating is also stamped on the sidewall, but it is stamped with a letter designation. And to show you where that's at is right after the size, you'll see two numbers for the load index, and then the letter M. Speed rating M will mean 81 mile per hour speed rating. Now, this does offer a two-year platinum plus warranty on it, which includes emergency tire change service and other benefits, and this assembly does meet the DOT, Department of Transportation specifications, and it will exceed Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. But that's gonna do it for the review on this Taskmaster Provider ST235/85R16 Radial Trailer Tire in a Load Range G, mounted on this 16 inch Vesper black modular steel trailer wheel with the 8 on 6 1/2 inch bolt pattern.
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